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The aim of the project is to develop a multilingual infrastructure enabling content producers to access, search, and integrate the assets of large multilingual text (and multimedia) collections, such as Internet libraries, resources of publishing houses, press agencies and scientific databases.

M-CAST will allow for the establishment of Digital Libraries by aggregating digital data available in different formats and locations. The system will be tested by two libraries, for which Multimedia Content Aggregation Portals (M-CAPs) will be established, using their existing portals and infrastructures. These portals will allow finding answers to natural language queries in large digital collections of multilingual data. The presentation layer of the portals will be multimedia capable, allowing for presentation of digitalized copies of old printings, legal documents, music scores, pictures, video etc., while only their textual descriptions can be indexed.

M-CAST will be based on the outcome of the TRUST - Multilingual Semantic and Cognitive Search Engine for Text Retrieval Using Semantic Technologies (IST-1999-56416) project financed under the 5th EU Framework Programme for RTD (). The portals will be deployed and tested in two public libraries: the Polish Internet Library and the National Library of the Czech Republic to make their digital resources available online for finding answers to natural language queries in multilingual digital collections.

At the end of the project a marketable product for multilingual knowledge management purposes will be available. Commercial exploitation of the results in libraries (information retrieval, classified catalogues), collection management (data acquisition and aggregation, circulation statistics, weeding), bibliographic databases, information services (selective dissemination of information, personalisation, knowledge discovery) and in semantic data networks is foreseen.